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A83971	Englands losse and lamentation, occasioned by the death of that Right Honourable, Robert Lord Brooke, Baron of Beauchamp-court, who was slaine at Lichfield the second day of March. 1642. Amplified, by some mournfull funerall expressions, from the authors feeling sense of so unvaluable a losse; complaining of the kingdomes stupidity, to awake a people slumbering in security, insensible of their insuing misery. Concluding with some consolations to his friends, and terror to his enemies popishly affected, and all malignants. By a loyall subject to the King, and a lover of the late Lord Brookes, and all his wel-wishers.	Loyal subject to the King and a lover of the late Lord Brookes and all his wel-wishers.; Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644, attributed name.	1643 (1643)	Wing E2992; Thomason E92_18; ESTC R5991	5,823	8

Prophets thy seers have seene false burdens causes of thy misery misleaders of thy King and Princes Thou art a derision to the Nations that have feared and honoured thee Thy idolatrous Enemies open their mouthes against thee and say this is the day they looked for we have have found it we have seene it Thy righteous men perish and thou layest it not to heart thy young and thy old men lie on the ground and are fallen by the sword in the day of Gods anger but thou regardest it not God hath called for the sword against thee and every mans sword is against his brother yet thou art not humbled to seeke thy God though all this is upon thee for thine iniquity And for thy sinne is this pillar taken from thee He while he lived lived for thee was thy servant to keepe thee from bondage esteem'd thy liberty above his owne life but thou didst not nor hast nor canst requite him his labour love zeale religion and faithfulnesse is his Crowne He died in Gods cause and his workes are with him His Ladies teares his Childrens cries his Souldiers weeping his Servants mourning his Friends bewailing his Neighbours sorrow his Tenants griefe and his Acquaintance moanings The Poores complainings and the Kingdomes lamentations can adde nothing to his happinesse They may all expresse their owne unhappinesse and irrecoverable losse But thou Lichfield the sinke of iniquity cage of uncleane and wicked spirits ungodly prophane and most prodidiously wicked chiefe instrument of the Kingdomes misery let the remembrance of thee be hatefull and thy name blotted out from among the Townes of the Provinces And let it not faile that some of thy inhabitants be for ever visited with some Diseases fall by the Sword and want bread Hee whom thou hast slaine hath finished his course rests from his labour and his soule is for ever blessed The cry of his bloud is gon to Heaven to hasten vengeance upon thee and his enemies And you his friends and Souldiers be you humbled who it is likely are not guiltlesse of his death you have too much deified his worth and provoked God to take him from us When good men are contemned God taketh them away that he may the sooner destroy a Nation or people as Noah and Lot And when good men are deified that is rather looked upon as causes then instruments God also takes them away because his glory is by them eclipsed in dlivering a Nation or people as Moses who died in the Mount whose Sepulcher was never knowne to this day And that victorious King of Sweden who in his life time foretold the same of himself Therfore let every man looke to his owne heart and finde out the sinne that hath displeased God and be humbled and then be not discouraged by this Noble mans death but rather get more courage manfully to avenge his guiltlesse blood and God will assist you The cause is Gods himselfe is engaged in it with you put forth your strength use your weapons make your best preparations but trust in nothing neither men nor Armes but in God who is alone the God of battell and Lord of Hosts he will supply you with an other Ioshua to goe before you and will not faile you nor forsake you The Lord is with you while ye be with him and if you seeke him he will be found of you You have double encouragement to go on with confidence in this cause you have Gods promise and you have experience of his gracious presence going with you in it The Lord heare you in the day of your trouble the God of Iacob defend you First for encouragement take notice of Gods promises he hath promised if you serve him onely he will deliver you 1 Sam. 7. 3. Again He will deliver thee in six troubles yea in seven there shall no evill touch thee in Famine he will deliver thee from death and in warre from the power of the sword Iob 22. 30. Be not afraid of their faces for I am with thee to deliver thee Jerem. 1. 8. They shall fight against thee but shall not prevaile for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee saith the Lord Ierem. 15. 20. The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly and reserve the unjust to be punished 1 Pet. 2. 9. Gods promises of this nature are obvious in every booke of holy Scripture yea God is delighted to deliver his people when they truely seeke to him See these places Psal. 50. 15. 2 Chron. 16. 35. Object This Noble Lord believed the promises and yet he saw no deliverance Answ. Nationall promises though they never faile a Nation or people when Gods time is come yet are not alwaies made good in the same kind to every particular man as we see in the two first battels of the Tribes of Israel against the Tribe of Benjamin though they went against them by commission from God they were slaine 40000. yet the third time when they had sought God by humiliation and prayer they overcame all those wicked Beniamites who refused to deliver up the men of Belial to the justice of the Law We have also particular instances in Moses Vzza Asa c. Sometime God doth it because of particular failings in men sometimes to make way for the worke of some other part of his providence as it was in the death of righteous Ionathan or for the clearer manifestation of his own power and glory yet such men faile not of their part in such promises but enjoy a greater good and better promise of which the other is but a shadow and we have assurance that all things worke together for the good of them that love God Object But we see whole Kingdomes and flourishing Churches have been destroyed notwithstanding these promises as whole Iudea Jerusalem all the flourishing Churches of Asia and of late Germany the Churches of the Palatinat Rochell and Ireland c. Answ. When whole Kingdoms consent to sinne and associate themselves in wickednesse then whole Kingdomes are destroyed and when Churches set up Idolatry and wholly forsake God and adulterate Gods pure worship God gives them over to be destroyed for as God promiseth deliverance when Idolatry is thrust out by dislike and reformation so he denounceth destruction and desolation where wickednesse and Idolatry is authorized So when religion consists onely inform and outside-worship without the love and power of it as now then God brings a people into the fire of affliction in which without reformation they may be consumed but if such a Kingdome or such a Church doe then humble themselves and pray and seeke Gods face he will be mercifull to their sinne and will heale their Land But the representative body of this Kingdome have not associated in wickednesse nor is the worship of God yet wholly adulterated but Idolatry opposed by that body and many thousands besides in this Kingdome against whom wicked men and I dolaters give counsell and doe associat themselves to hinder the reformation they desire Therefore though not for our righteousnesse but for the wickednesse of those men we may and ought to rest with confidence upon the promise of God for our deliverance if our humiliation be good and our desire of reformation right Secondly for incouragement take notice of the experiences of Gods gracious presence going with us in this Parliament as with Israel to bring them out of their Egyptian bondage he hath by his own hand wrought great things by them and for them he hath been to them a pillar of a cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night to guid and to defend them It was no small part of providence to bring them together and wonderfull in guiding directing providing preferring and defending of them and no lesse wonderfull in discovering defeating and blasting the designes of their enemies Consider that saying of Manoahs wife to her husband when he said they should surely die If the Lord saith she were pleased to kill us he would not have shewed us all these things wicked men may prevaile for a time but are as the Psalmist speakes suddenly destroyed There is one righteous Judge who will give righteous judgement There is one mighty King in whose hand are the hearts of all Kings who in his due time wil save his Anoynted and destroy his enemies and our eyes are towards him for we know not what to do but to trust in him If you beleeve in the Lord your God so shall you be established beleeve his Prophets and you shall prosper 2 Chron. 20. 20. FINIS Lam. 2. 1. We cannot account better of those men then sons of ' Belial and limbs of the devil Who at the newes of this noblemans death called their hellish companions to the Taverns and for joy drunke themselves drunk and in their drunkenesse spake scandalous railing speches against Him God rebuke them God and men heard and saw them 2 Sam. 3. 33. Lam. 2. 13. c. Esay 57. 1. Lam. 2. 21. Ezech. 38. 21. 2 Sam. 3. 29 Deut. 31. 6. 2 Chro. 15 2 Psal. 20. 1. Judg. 20. Rom. 8. 28 Judg. 3. 7 8. 2 Chr. 7. 14 Jud. 13. 23. Psal. 64. 7. Prov. 21. 1. 2 Chro. 20 12.